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Blog 7 - Helmut Lachenmann - New Music and New Listener

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The history of the composition, since Bach until our days converge in Helmut Lachenmann . The first time that I found me with him, invaded me a powerfull feeling and his new music opened my world. When you listen him for the first time is shocking and the first impression is "what the hell is this!". He has been highly criticized, because his music is considered very complex and demands the highest virtuosity of the interpreters.  He proposes to us a new way of listening where we must leave our state of comfort. What we understand of the music and the beauty is now questioned. The traditional music like popular music is worn and our spirits need new stimuli. His music is a existential experience, that leads us to the innermost part of our being. His music it made me cry like a Brahms´s symphony. Its full of contrasts; some moments lead you to a void or to a abyss, and suddenly its interrupted with a very powerful chilling chord, rising to ...

Blog 6 - Ask is the Ursprung

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Contemplating this picture , reflecting the nature and the walk, arises in me an impuls like an arrow pregnant with longing, and a reflection becomes within me. Why are we here? When are we begin? Towards do we project ourselves?  These questions are and always will be the questions of the questions, those that keep our spirits moving, those that wake us up every morning and offer meaning to our existences.  Philosophy isn´t yet dead, its only been transformed ... Where to? Towards art, towards music. Because words are everywhere, worlds, realities and certainties.  Only that behind the words hides a sound, pure, solitary, and that hasn´t yet been hidden. Just behind the words comes the " Ursprung ", the Voice that speaks without words, that tells us nothing, nor symbolizes anything, but that challenges us with vigor. Some call that voice "language of the gods". But its neither divine nor human voice. It simply "is" - and for this reason its also...